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Volume 2 Beijing Story Chapter 163 Chinese Aviation Pioneer

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    Update time: 2012-08-16

    Xu Shuzheng spent a lot of time and energy and made full preparations for the Senate re-election in early August. At the same time, House Speaker Tang Hualong and Liang Qichao jointly reorganized the research department, clearly supporting the current cabinet and Prime Minister Duan, Cao Rulin.  The Department of Transportation and the Department of Revitalization of Lu Ding are also active in the parliament and have become staunch supporters of the current cabinet and the Prime Minister.

    Xu Shuzheng¡¯s Anfu Club will have to wait until the House of Representatives election a year later to officially take the stage, but the Anfu Club has become a force that cannot be ignored in the senatorial re-election.

    The research department, transportation department, revitalization department and the southern party's militant faction became the majority in the House of Representatives and the Senate. Under such circumstances, Duan Qirui and the cabinet's position became unstoppable. Acting President Feng Guozhang sought to transfer from acting to acting.  The request to become a formal president was quietly lost in the pre-session negotiations between the House of Representatives and the Senate without the support of the Prime Minister.

    After the Progressive Party fell into pieces and disappeared, Acting President Feng Guozhang found himself like a rat in the bellows. There was no way to recruit the two parties. The Southern Party members supported Li Yuanhong because he was not a direct descendant of Beiyang and had always treated the Southern Party favorably.  Rong, you, Feng Guozhang, are a serious Beiyang boss, but Duan Qirui controls the government, but after all, he is the master of Qingfeng with two sleeves and super charming personality.

    "You, Feng Guozhang, who can catch all the big fish raised by Zhongnanhai in the past dynasties, are so greedy for money, how can you really become the president?"  Are the people still alive?  Although you did some cosmetic charity and set up factories for the poor when you were in Nanjing, the Southern Party members were even more worried about handing the country over to Feng Guozhang than Duan Qirui!

    During the Second Revolution, Feng Guozhang and Zhang Xun captured Nanjing and burned, killed, and plundered. The Southerners did not forget the blood debt they owed so quickly!

    The third batch of U.S. dollar arms arrived at the end of June 1917, the list is as follows:

    The second batch of US aid arms included the machine guns and a large amount of equipment that Wang Geng had been waiting for. The specific list is as follows:

    1. M1903 Springfield manual rifle: 30,000 pieces

    2. M1917bar Browning squad machine gun: 2,000 pieces

    3. M1917a1 water-cooled Browning heavy machine gun: 1,500 pieces

    4. M1 Garand semi-automatic rifle: 3,000 pieces

    5. Colt caliber automatic pistols: 30,000 (including 9 million rounds of .45 caliber pistol ammunition)

    6, 7 Rifle ammunition: 90 million rounds

    7. 72 Japanese-style 75mm41 mountain cannons (including 15,400 rounds of 75-caliber mountain cannon shells)

    8. 72 Japanese-style 75mm38 field guns (including 15,400 rounds of 75-caliber field gun shells)

    9. 24 Japanese 150mm howitzers (including 9,800 rounds of 150-caliber howitzers)

    10. American-made Dodge 1-ton semi-military truck (wide tires and all-steel wheels): 200 units

    11. American-made Ford TT 1-ton utility vehicle (wide tires and all-steel wheels): 300 units

    12. American-made Ford Model T (wide tires and all-steel wheels): 300 units

    In addition, there are complete sets of equipment for two refineries with an annual output of 500,000 tons of gasoline and diesel, as well as SDK assembly parts for 1,000 Ford Dodge cars. After a month of hard work, the Ford Dodge Nanyuan Car located on the west side of Nanyuan Airport  The company's complete set of equipment has been installed and commissioned. Next door to the Ford Dodge Nanyuan Automobile Factory, the British aircraft repair and assembly plant of the Chinese Army Air Force has also entered normal operation at this time.

    At this time, China mainly relies on imported gasoline and diesel, and the reason why Wang Geng agreed to ship the equipment of the remaining two refineries in the third batch of US aid equipment is also because the Rockefeller oil exploration team in Yanchang and Morgan Oil in Suiyuan  Good news came from the exploration team.

    The Yanyi Well located outside the west gate of Yanchang in 1907, drilled by the Qing government in 1907, was close to depletion after nearly 10 years of continuous production at a daily oil production rate of 1.5 tons. The Rockefeller oil exploration team arrived in Yanchang and began exploration and exploration without stopping.  Test drilling showed that the Yanyi Well, which was originally depleted, spewed out strong oil again after drilling to 118 meters and 152 meters, and the daily oil production increased to 3 tons. Then Chinese and foreign members of the Rockefeller oil exploration team worked together to drill in Yongping, Yanchang  Three wells were drilled, two of which produced 3 tons of oil per day!

    Of course, for Wang Geng's three sets of refinery equipment with an annual production capacity of 100,000 tons of gasoline and diesel, the oil produced by the Yanchang Oil Mine has almost no refining value. The daily output of 10 tons of crude oil seems to be a lot, but it can be compared with the future output of 1,000 tons of crude oil.  Naturally, Wang Geng knows that Yanchang and Dushanzi in Karamay, Xinjiang, are among the earliest oil deposits in China, but only God knows how far Xinjiang is to the mainland Chinese in this era.

    Wang Geng¡¯s big weapon is Renqiu. In his previous life, the Rensi Well in the North China Oilfield produced more than a thousand tons of high-quality crude oil per day. However, Zhili is not yet in his hands. Although Wang Geng is anxious, the refinery is  Don¡¯t be in a hurry to choose a site for installation.

    As for the Morgan oil exploration team, when the birds have nothing to do,They were sleeping in the open air, but with the help of the motorized battalion sent by Han Fuqu stationed in Baotou, they managed to reach the legendary Chaogwenduer Village in the Urad Rear Banner. An expert would know if it was there as soon as he stretched out his hand.  In the eyes of others, the structure of the address there is just an ordinary grassland and hilly area, connected to countless dry rivers and ditches. In the eyes of the exploration engineers of the Morgan Petroleum Exploration Team, it looks like a huge oil treasure house to be developed.

    There is oil underground near Chaoge Wendu'er Village, and it is not deep, and the reserves are definitely not small. The news was strictly blocked under the order of Wang Geng, and Han Fuqu sent a regiment of troops to garrison nearby, and the area was within a radius of dozens of miles.  The barbed wire fence of the military restricted area was erected. After receiving generous land acquisition compensation, nearly a thousand households in the entire Urad Back Banner were dragged by Han Fuqu using Dodge trucks to live in the Urad Middle Banner, a hundred miles away.

    At the same time, Wang Geng added another arduous task to Zhan Tianyou's railway exploration and design team. They were to explore the railway line from Baotou to Wulatehou Banner. From Baotou to the west along the Yellow River, it was planned to build a 220-kilometer railway to  In Bayannur, we will turn northwest and build an 80-kilometer branch line directly to Urad Rear Banner.

    The Morgan Petroleum Exploration Team¡¯s exploration work in Urad Rear Banner has made progress every day. The proven oil reserves jumped from 1,000 tons to 10,000 tons, then 100,000 tons, then million tons, and finally 10 million tons!

    Although the exploration equipment and funding personnel came from loans from the United States, the borrower was the Chinese Ministry of Finance. The Sino-American Petroleum Company was officially established at the end of July 1917. With Wang Geng's promotion, Morgan and Rockefeller reached an agreement to jointly develop China's oil.  protocol.

    The newly established Sino-American Petroleum Company was a joint venture in which the Treasury held 25% of the shares, the Department of Transportation held 25%, the Morgan consortium held 15%, the Rockefeller consortium held 15%, and Manhattan Industrial Bank held  Among them, China Charity Foundation holds 10% of the shares, with a registered capital of 36 million.  An energy company that can be called Asia¡¯s giant in the future.

    While the highway from Zhangjiakou to Suiyuan was widened and strengthened into a high-grade highway with smooth pavement by Wang Geng at all costs, the highway from Baotou to the west along the Yellow River from Baotou to Bayannaoer to Wulatehou Banner also entered the process of widening and strengthening.  The reinforcement project, especially since there was no road from Bayannaoer to Urad Rear Banner, is completely to re-explore, plan and construct this nearly 80-kilometer road.

    Fortunately, with the Dodge truck running on the Guisui Prairie, as long as you are not afraid of bumps and get lost, you can reach your destination even if there is no road.

    The huge highway and railway project from Zhangjiakou to the west is in full swing. With the completion of the debugging of equipment at the Nanyuan Aircraft Equipment Factory under the Aviation Department, the emergence of the Handley Page 0/400 heavy bomber has opened up a new chapter in Chinese aviation.  A new chapter in history.

    The 72 Handley Page 0/400 heavy bombers, like the SE5 fighters and the DH4 reconnaissance bombers, had their wings and landing gear disassembled and some were even segmented and then packed up and arrived in China with the ocean-going fleet at the end of June.  , within this month, the aviation force of the participating armies was formally established, and the equipment of the Nanyuan British Aircraft Repair and Assembly Factory was also debugged and installed, except for the first batch of eight dh4 two-seat reconnaissance bombers that were converted into training types.

    According to Wang Geng's instructions, Director Wang Zhu and Deputy Director Ba Yuzao of the Aviation Department of the participating armies have been working overtime to assemble the Handley Page 0/400 heavy bomber with a team of British mechanics. This aircraft can be called  Of course, Wang Geng had no need to use it to participate in ground bombing at this time, so the instructions given to the assistants were to modify 12 of them into civilian passenger planes first!
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